It is now more than a decade since I took my first ride in a self-driving car. As a Google prototype zipped me around Mountain View in Silicon Valley, what promised to be an exhilarating taste of the future quickly became quite boring — the robot car was just such a smooth driver. A 2017 deadline for bringing autonomous vehicles to market, which was set in 2012 by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, seemed aggressive but not implausible.
自从我第一次乘坐自动驾驶汽车已经超过十年了。当时，谷歌的一个原型车在硅谷的山景城(Mountain View)载着我飞驰，原本承诺的令人振奋的未来体验很快变得相当无聊——这辆机器人车开得实在太平稳了。谷歌联合创始人谢尔盖•布林(Sergey Brin)在2012年设定的2017年将自动驾驶汽车推向市场的最后期限，虽然看似激进，但并非不可能。
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